“Naturally they stopped at the Beethoven statue that Schumann had been visiting nearly every day; the monument was his church and his altar.” …
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Tim Berners-Lee
“I rejected [Christianity] just after being ‘confirmed’ and told how essential it was to believe in all kinds of unbelievable things.” …
Sara Paretsky
“I’m at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.” …
Frank Lloyd Wright
“I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.” …
Francis Crick
“I realized early on that it is detailed scientific knowledge which makes certain religious beliefs untenable. A knowledge of the true age of the earth and of the fossil record …
Alice Hubbard
“The world can only be redeemed through action — movement — motion. Uncoerced, unbribed and unbought, humanity will move toward the light.” …
Nikki Giovanni
“I can’t dig theology …” …
Charles Strouse
“My sister died in ’41 of breast cancer, and I remember a rabbi saying that ‘God in his infinite wisdom has chosen to take this young girl.’ That was a …
Harvey Fierstein
“We are lucky enough to be living in a country that not only guarantees the freedom to practice religion as we see fit, but also freedom FROM religious zealots who …